Installing programs to external HDD

[The_Ender]

Title says it all... Hi all, new here. Is it possible/advisable to install seldom used programs to an external eSATA harddrive? I use graphics programs infrequently and to save same space on the notebook drive, I'd like to install them to an external eSATA drive...will it work?

Thanks, Larry

 

[overclockingrocks]

It should work however for speed reasons it is inadvisable. As well external drives have been shown to have a higher failure rate then their desktop counterparts. in short use an external drive for data storage not for installing or running programs

Hope this helps,

overclockingrocks